Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology

Mar.4] SOCIETYOF BIBLICAL ARCHEOLOGY. [1890.

andin another place it is said thatthe monuments werealready
designedwithhis name duringhis first youth. Theseassertionsare
not true. RamsesII counted his years not from his birth, but only
from his real kingship, whichhe got as a grown-up man; in his
fifthyearseveralof his sons wereold enough to accompany himin
battle. If he had really beenassociatedwiththe throne, he would
certainlyhavecountedfromthisevent,as other Egyptiankingsdid.
Further, no monument is dated in a double-reign of Seti I and
RamsesII ; when the two appeartogether,Ramsesis called prince
and not king. The differing indication of Ramses originates
evidentlyin the pretension of all Pharaohs to have the same course
of life as Horus, whowas king fromhis childhood. If Ramses II
entertained thiswish,the existence of an elder brother,who was

the 1 fe^ V? and would be king, if he did not die before his

father, musthavebeen verydisagreeable to him. He, whoused
with predilectionthe monuments of his ancestors as material for
his own, would try by all possible meansto destroy his brother's
memory; the obliteration of the prince's namewill havebeen made
by his instigation. Theprincetookpartin the Syrian war,andwas
therefore thenan adult ; it is doubtful if Ramses alsoassisted,the
only proofwouldbe given by the above bas-relief, in which his
pictureis so out of place as to make us doubt its historical value.

Of the name of the prince only the sign vlv is preserved.
Underneath there is space for only one long sign,so that the
wholename, if V ' marks the beginning, may havebeen "S^,

a word appearing in the XVIIIth and XlXth dynasties as a
private name. For instancein the texton the a/iu, published
by Virey, Mem. de la Miss. arch, du Caire, I, 481 sqq., whose
date, year 5, refers, as M. Virey pointed out, to the time of

RamsesII. To his proofs we mayadd,that the r=i (1 fi C3 \ (j \y$

quoted on pi. Ill is known to be a son of the governor of Thebes

at the time of Seti I and RamsesII, fi& TO, in whose tomb(cf.

Champ.,Not., 520 sqq, 846 sqq.) he appears as c=^ (I 8 ^\ C3 0

21 \ 0 I (J ^. ^j • To get the sense of the name Neb-ua,it is

necessaryto supply as the first element the name of a divinity, as Ra

or Amen andto translate then,"The godN. is the only master."

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